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>Trains are just the most efficient way of moving people between cities.

If the cities are closer than 600 km. Trains are good for movement inside a typical state, but rarely between states.

A passenger train in the USA weighs about 1000 tons, plus another 150 or so tons of locomotive, before we add the passengers (seating 80 per car and about 11 cars for 880 passengers).

That’s about a ton per passenger.

To be fair an EV would be at least two tons per passenger. I guess a 1990s honda civic is still one if the most efficient means of vehicular travel.

It's pretty hard to beat those 90s cars - you could fit five adults in them, and they didn't even weigh 2 tons.

You're preaching to the choir but the average person doesn't care.